I've finished with a rough draft of the survey I want to submit to my students. I would appreciate your opinions. Please click on the following link in order to see my first try.
http://home.ite.sfcollege.edu/~peterss/SurveyFirstDraftPosted.pdf
There are a group of general questions regarding demographics. The Survey Tips page from the Illinois Center of Public Health suggested that I put these last. I thought they would work better if they came first since they would know the answers and could finish quickly. I would find these questions intrusive but I think the answers will tell me a lot about the time my students have to complete their school work and its relative importance in their lives. (School or your children - which is the most important?). What do you think?
Also, I tried to not to make my questions open - ended but I also wanted to make my survey friendly and casual so I did not include rated questions. You know, the questions with radio buttons beside numbers 1-5 indicating the degree of agreement. I know that these are easier to evaluate statistically but this is an exploratory effort and the sample size is too small for a serious statistical inference so the results will be reported as percentages (How to Write a Survey Report).
I am seriously interested in your opinions. So please post them to this blog. Josh, you did this sort of thing for a living at one time...
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One of the most interesting surveys I've seen; not the usual questions. Two observations--in questions #7 and #9 you might want to add a slightly helpful option and you might want to add the reason for the personal questions that open the survey. Or you might want to put those at the end rather than the beginning.
ReplyDelete1) I wouldn't suggest this survey will take someone 30 mins. You might scare him or her off. It doesn't seem like it would take more than 10-15.
ReplyDelete2) If you have a small number of respondents, I'd leave more opportunity for qualitative elaboration on questions 7-19. I'd say to put a txt box after each question marked optional.
3) You say
>I would find these questions intrusive but I >think the answers will tell me a lot about the >time my students have to complete their school >work and its relative importance in their >lives.
but you don't directly ask. I think you should. It will be interesting to look for correlations between these demographic factors, their perception of relative importance, and questions like Q17-19.
I how we get to see the data.
Thank you for commenting, Josh. I want to give the chair of my department my proposal tomorrow. I am going to alter the survey to reflect your suggesions. Could you take a look at it after I include your suggestions? I will delay the submission just to get your input.
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